Hey there! Obsessed with Karloff’s Frankenstein’s Monster (I call him Frankie personally lol) here’s some of my goodies! A lot of other things are spread around my room so I can’t get a good picture of everything, but here’s most of my collection! Hope all is well for you guys :)!
Really wish we could've seen an more corpse like representantion in movies
I got Tomodachi life on the weekend and after myself and my husband The Creature was my first creation! Followed by Victor and Mary of course.
I’m inordinately proud and delighted by all the shenanigans happening on my island. They’re actually all getting along very well (though The Creature is very introverted and sad a lot hahaha).
Arrived today 😁 I really do think once this is streaming and more people see it, it'll get more of a cult following. Loved it. Can't wait to show it to anyone who gives a shit.
I'm working on an essay about GDT's adaptation and I want to justify Harlander's addition as a homage to Igor or Fritz (from 1931 film). Is there any interview where GDT explicitly explains why he introduced this character into the film?
I’m a little new to the book, (shame me, I deserve it), and I’m sort of catching a vibe that Victor’s creation of the creature is for such.. a complex reason. I’m slightly torn.
“A new species would bless me as its creator and source.”
Did Victor want the creation of his creature to be for the purpose of slavery? Did he want to feel above something despite ALREADY being very entitled and noble in his earlier years? Is that what this book is a warning of? Slavery and overconfidence in its procedure? Yes, it’s a warning of unchecked ambition, male rivalry, but it can be interpreted in so many different ways, like a reflection of the fears that new mechanisms brought in the 19th century— okay, i’m going off topic.
I’m so overloaded with information, this book is great and I’d love more than anything to hear additional opinions. I looked at ‘The Ancient Mariner’, and how it sort of said that violation of natural and moral order is a disruption of the balance between humans and nature and I felt it was very applicable to Victor and the Romantic beliefs he failed to grasp in time.
ANYHOW.
What was Victors true purpose for his creation? Parenthood? Mere ambition and none else? To feel superior? To FEEL like he’s helping society (a bit like Walton?)
scored this gem from amazon for $20! i have a big frankenstein collection and love young frankenstein and this is my first piece of young frankenstein merch!
Just adopted this unfinished original and can’t wait to stare at it all day long.
I'm looking at snatching a copy of the book and would prefer to read the 1818 edition, as it sounds like the most interesting read (please correct me if I'm wrong). The Penguin Clothbound Classics version looks pretty good and I can get it for a good price considering it's hardback, but I can't find any information on which version of the text it is based on. Does anybody own it, and could they possibly tell me which version it is? Thanks a ton in advance!
ps.
The vendor is also selling a version explicitly labelled 'the 1818' version, but it has a less appealing cover (with a large label stating it has an adaptation on netflix ewww) and is paperback.
How you liked this movie I found this is quite fascinating and kinda Deadpool like feeling but serious character.
Your comments and views are much appreciated 👍
I have seen Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein on Netflix and though it was a solid movie. However while I was looking for some books to add to my To-Read list, I came across the original Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I've already seen the 2025 Netflix original, should I still read the novel?
One of my favorite heart-breaking scenes from the novel. Swipe for the unmoonlit version.
My Reading of Frankenstein
I finished Frankenstein tonight.
What a sorrowful ending, yet such a beautiful conclusion.
At first, I believed the creature to be the monster. Yet by the end, I realised Victor Frankenstein himself is the true horror of the story. Not because he created life, but because he abandoned it the moment it opened its eyes.
Victor wished to conquer death. He feared mortality so greatly that he sought to create life itself, believing that through science he could transcend the natural order and become something greater than man. Yet in doing so, he created suffering everywhere around him.
The creature was not born evil.
It was born alone.
That is the tragedy.
The creature longed for love, companionship, understanding, and connection. It watched humanity from afar with admiration. It wished not for violence at first, but for acceptance. Yet the very man who gave it life looked upon it with disgust and horror.
Victor gave life to a being, yet refused to give it humanity.
He wanted the glory of creation without the responsibility that comes with it.
And that is where his downfall begins.
The creature begged for compassion. Begged for another like itself so it would not wander the earth in isolation. Yet Victor, so consumed by fear and self-absorption, tore even that hope away.
In doing so, he created the very monster he feared.
There is only so much weight a bridge can bear before it collapses.
The creature’s bridge collapsed beneath abandonment, rejection, hatred, and loneliness. The murders it committed were horrific, yes, but they were born from suffering. It became the reflection of the cruelty shown to it.
Victor spends the entire novel believing himself the victim, yet he rarely acknowledges that he authored the suffering in the first place.
He feared death so deeply that he destroyed life itself.
That is the irony of Frankenstein.
Victor wished to escape mortality, yet his obsession with immortality killed everyone he loved. William. Justine. Clerval. Elizabeth. Even his own father. One by one, death followed the very man who tried to defeat it.
And by the end, both creator and creation realise the truth too late.
Victor realises he failed his own creation.
And the creature realises revenge did not heal its loneliness.
It only made the emptiness greater.
That is why Frankenstein is not simply a horror story.
It is a tragedy about responsibility, isolation, love, rejection, and the consequences of creating life without compassion.
A creature can only be shown hell for so long before it begins to believe it belongs there.
My Tomodachi island welcomes its first baby! I based his design on The Creature's design in Frankenstein (2025). He is the child of my Mii and Nosferatu :-)
THIS IS THE 2025 VERSION.
entire metaphor for Frankenstein being an absence of life is so crazy to me. This has always been one of my favorite novels. I am currently sixteen and my first ever introduction to Frankenstein my goat was Frankenstein's bride. Being like 9 years old I obviously wasn't able to fuckin fully understand what it meant. All I saw was a misunderstood monster who had stiches in his forehead. I never really took my time to truly listen and watch and understand the entire point of Frankenstein. I had just watched Frankenstein 2025. holy fuck did it change my life.
Lately i've been a fat chud and I don't read or write and I find myself getting stuck in my own head. But it brought me to such a moment in life of realizing how supreme my mother is. How different my own life could have been. I lost my dad when I was around 3. Now growing up when I started to become sentient, I always wondered how different things could've been for me if things were the other way around. Would I be completely different if my dad had raised me instead? So watching Frankenstein and understanding the metaphors completely had me so like well understood? I mean my dad was great trust but the entire metaphor of Victor failing to create life because he didn't care about what came after creation.
The thing is like 6ft and embodies a grown man with the brain of a 1 year old basically. So Victor just thinking he failed because his creation isn't "intelligent" is so intense. Like I never thought Frankenstein was a metaphor for life. Even his laboratory in the movie mimicking a womb with the fluids and the cords and the giant hole on the top floor being a way of life and death as we saw Harlander die falling down it and the thing be "born" through it. LMAO "Men wanna give birth sooo bad". The entire ABSENCE OF LIFE JUST IS SO CRAZY TO ME. Also movies like that are always like given bad ratings cuz some bitches jUST DONT GET IT, SOME PPL JUST DONT GET IT. Anyways, my favortie part was when the thing was feeding the deer and getting shot at like what a way start freedom by learning about the circle of life. What was ur fav part??
I'll soon have my final B.A. oral exam in English Studies, and one of my two topics is something along the lines of "The Legacy of Frankenstein." I thought of the following thesis statement (using Mary Shelley's novel, the GdT adaptation, and Alasdair Gray's novel Poor Things (as well as its adaptation; not sure about it yet, tho); maybe someone has any insightful thoughts on it:
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein highlights the issue of interpretive authority present in the (re)telling of a story by allowing the Creature to narrate its own story to both Victor and Captain Anderson, the film’s equivalent of Walton, as well as to the audience. This change alters the story’s outcome towards a more reconciliatory ending in which Victor seeks and receives the Creature’s forgiveness. Similarly, Alasdair Gray’s novel Poor Things adapts and alters the narrative structure of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and gives its ‘Creature’, Bella Baxter, narrative authority both within the central frame narrative, the fictitious novel within the novel, and beyond, casting doubt in the entire story.